Discoveries from Ireland World Cinema

A puppet grows tormented at the hands of her manipulator.

Archie’s Bat is a story about the main character Archie, a lonely young boy who is surprisingly given the chance at friendship when his path crosses with an injured bat. However, Archie will learn that not only is a bat not the best play mate, but there’s responsibility in caring for another living being.

'Identities' is a feature length documentary, charting the multi coloured, multi cultural transgender community in Ireland. Five personal stories illustrate and give shape to the different but parallel worlds of Transvestism, Transsexualism, Drag, Homosexuality, Sex, Sexual identity, and Gender Dysphoria. The film unfolds as fly on the wall footage introduces us to the world of each character. Their incredible stories are documented in a series of revealing interviews, each narrative preceded by a performance art piece, and more abstract self-representation. Personal histories charting hardship, rejection and discrimination will be placed in a wider social, political and religious context through these characters' personal experiences. At its heart, this is a film about the human spirit. Overcoming stereotype and categorization, we break down the gender construct, allowing personality and human emotion a path to expression.

A short film about the examination of one's consciousness.

Since the early 1960's, wild man Ludo Mich has been actively operating on the fringes and the fringes of the fringes of the Antwerp underground art scene.

Ballaí Luimnigh (Walls of Limerick) is an original vertical dance film incorporating aerial circus with contemporary Irish dance, created by Kathryn Cooley, Máire Dee and Arturo Bandinelli at the Irish Aerial Creation Centre in Limerick. This project uses the medium of film and aerial dance to distort the audience’s perception of what is physically possible, altering reality and creating an illusionary body/spirit dissociation. The film creators draw from Limerick's history and culture to influence both the narrative and some of the film’s imagery. The title alludes both to the well-known Irish dance and to stories of the city, from the Vikings and the siege of Limerick (1690) to the current cultural and social realities of Limerick.

It is the story of a strange, morbid young man who is driven to despair by a flighty young girl on whom he has set his heart... [One scene has] the melancholic hero, driving a car in O'Connell St, [and he] runs down a pedestrian. On getting out of the car, he finds the man he has killed is himself!'

Luka has made great connections with audiences in Australia, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, the UK and the US throughout his career, so he personally invited his dans to come and experience and intimate gig in a Dublin venue.

Will Williams and Jess Cook are Vedic meditation practitioners and teachers, living and working in central London. Over the past nine years they have taught thousands of people this ancient technique, which they claim can help overcome almost any type of stress-induced condition, anxiety, addiction, depression, existential crisis. They say modern scientific studies prove that it helps boost productivity, creativity, memory, focus, emotional intelligence, social connection and compassion.

Going to the Mountain consists of three formal studies of pre-verbal babies. Through its unlikely protagonists, the video considers how the pre-verbal child might represent a site of embodied knowledge. Using slow motion camera, mirrored surfaces and rhythmic editing, the video attempts to depict the complexities of their gesture, rhythm and movement through a process of defamiliarization. Going to the Mountain is an acute, unsentimental portrait of Nico, Grace and Maya, with a score developed in collaboration with Andrew Fogarty, featuring improvised percussion by David Lacey made in response to audio recordings of a 7 month old child as well as newly commissioned soft sculptures by artist Barbara Knezevic.

Conjuring up the dark spaces of the séance room, Pull Down intimately observes the collapsing and slumping of a girl through the focusing lens of a camera. Continuing the artist's explorations of the phenomena of spiritualism, Pull Down draws attention to the role of the camera as observer of the medium within historic psychical research studies.

A groundbreaking documentary exposing the extent of collusion between Loyalist paramilitaries and the British security forces in Northern Ireland during 'the Troubles'.

A person is taking selfies in the process of creating a new personal account on a social network, but something unexpected happens to him.

Told through two unique voices, 'become invisible' explores the seductive and dramatic nature of Mayo's landscape, revealing the tragic consequences that can arise when rural isolation and artistic pressure collide.

While Matty lies dying in hospital his older brother Mike decides that, with the help of his friends and his uncle Paddy, little Matty should have one last great adventure.

Fiddler Martin Hayes explores his love of traditional Irish music.

A man travels to Ireland to discover its history but finds himself reflecting on the life of his sick father.

A boy finds adventure in the big city.